Open Notebook Dialogue: Show top-level Pages in tooltip

[dotancohen]

It would be nice if a tooltip in the Open Notebook dialogue were to show the top-level Pages of each Notebook in a tooltip on hover.

For instance, supposing that a Notebook has this Page hierarchy:
Linux
 -- Debian
 -- -- Ubuntu
 -- Red Hat
 -- -- CentOS
 -- -- Fedora
Windows
 -- XP
 -- Vista

The tooltip would thus show this:
Linux
Windows

Thanks for considering.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

I think this will result in a very large tooltip, which is bad design
from my point of view. I see more merit in a kind of preview widget
next to the list (like the image preview in the file dialog). However
this can not be combined with the request for a single click access in
this list.

-- Jaap

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:34 PM, dotancohen <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> It would be nice if a tooltip in the Open Notebook dialogue were to show
> the top-level Pages of each Notebook in a tooltip on hover.
>
>
> For instance, supposing that a Notebook has this Page hierarchy:
> Linux
>  -- Debian
>  -- -- Ubuntu
>  -- Red Hat
>  -- -- CentOS
>  -- -- Fedora
> Windows
>  -- XP
>  -- Vista
>
> The tooltip would thus show this:
> Linux
> Windows
>
>
> Thanks for considering.
>
> ** Affects: zim
>     Importance: Undecided
>         Status: New
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720742
>
> Title:
>  Open Notebook Dialogue: Show top-level Pages in tooltip
>

[smu (smu)]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 03:10:24PM -0000, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> I think this will result in a very large tooltip, which is bad design
> from my point of view.

one could limit the preview to e.g. the first five elements

Linux
Shopping
Foo
Foo1
FooX
...

[nomnex (nomnex)]

Personally, I don't like tooltips, but maybe when they explain some software settings, and if the user can disable them in the pereferences (they are already enough redundant tooltips all over the place in Gnome/KDE). People using zim have probably a good organization skill and I would find such feature a bit superfluous. Maybe the preview widget Jaap mentions would be a better approach, but I still don't see the real enhancement this might bring.

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

This one is quite hard to implement since instantiating a full notebook object just to generate the tooltip is way too slow. Moving to "Won't fix".